James  Best    1887

Estate of James Best 1887
From LDS microfilm #2057238

Supreme Court of Newfoundland.
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(initials in left margin) JW Brigus
ST. JOHN'S,  }
                       }  We do swear that we believe that  James Best
    To Wit.       }  late of Greenspond in the Northern District
                           of Newfoundland   Fisherman -------------------
deceased, died without a Will; and that we will well and truly administer all and every the Goods of the said deceased and pay his debts, so far as his Goods will extend; and that we will exhibit a true, full and perfect Inventory of the said Goods of the deceased, and render a true account of our Administration into the Registry of the said Court, within six months from the date hereof, or when we shall be thereunto lawfully required ; and that the whole of the Goods, Rights, Chattels, Assets, Credits and Effects of the said deceased which he died possessed of, within the jurisdiction of this Court, do not, according to the best of our knowledge, judgment and belief, amount to the the value of   Two   hundred     -------------   dollars.

Sworn before me, at St. John's, the    29^th day of }William his X mark Dooling
  June       in the year of Our Lord One Thousand  }
Eight Hundred and Eighty-  seven / by the said      }
William Dooling and Charlotte Dooling /   Charoltte her X mark Dooling
Being first read and explained
                                Geo. I Adams
                       Commissioner of Affidavits.

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1887
Estate of James Best

late of  Greenspond

in the  Northern    District

     Fisherman    deceased

Dated  30^th June 1887
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Admin   ____ granted to William

Dooling & Charlotte Dooling
                              of
St.Johns  --------
Sureties
      John Howlett
      Patrick Leary
Estate sworn under
                    $ 200 00/100

Notice

After three days application will be made to the Honourable the Supreme Court or one of the Honourable Judges thereof for Letters of Administration to the Estate of the late James Best of Greenspond Fisherman deceased to be granted to William Dooling and Charlotte Dooling.

Carter & Carter

St Johns May 13. 1887 }                                         Proctors
(initials) O.E.

I hereby certify that the notice on the other Side hereof written was duly posted in my office on the day of the date thereof and has remained there until this date no caveat or other objection having been entered thereto in the meantime.

Dated at St. Johns this 28^th day of June 20. 1887

Geo. I. Adams
            A.f Sc

To the Honorable the
Supreme Court or one of the
Honorable Judges thereof .

The Petition of William Dooling of Saint John's Mariner and CharlotteDooling his wife

humbly Sheweth

             That James Best late husband of the said Charlotte  -----
Dooling died at Greenspond in the Northern District on the eighth day of October Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and eighty three without having made a Will and leaving him surviving your Petitioner the said Charlotte and two children Anna Maria Best who died since at the age of three years and John Best who is now of the age of six years.

          That Since the death of the said James Best your Petitioner Charlotte has been married to your Petitioner William Dooling.

          That the deceased at the time of his death was possessed of property of the probable value of one hundred and eighty dollars.

          That neither Probate nor Administration has been granted to

The Estate of the Said deceased.

            Petitioners therefore pray that Your Lordships will be pleased to grant them Letters of Administration to the Estate of the Said James Best.
   And as in duty bound will ever pray.

June 28^th_AD1887,
   Witness
(Having been first read
Over and explained to said
William Dooling and                    Charlotte her X mark Dooling
Charlotte Dooling,
  Hugh JMaiter
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Newfoundland }            In the Supreme Court
  St. John's        }                  Probate Side
     to wit           }
          Willaim Dooling of Saint John's
          aforesaid Mariner and Charlotte Dooling
          his wife Severally make oath and
          say that the contents of the foregoing
          Petition are correct and true to the
          best of Deponents' knowledge and belief
          and that they are the Petitioners therein
          named.
Sworn before me at          }
St. John's aforesaid this    }             William his X mark Dooling
  28^th day of June             }
A.D. 1887 by the Said      }
William Dooling and the said
Charlotte Dooling (having been     Charlotte her X mark Dooling
First read and explained)
             Geo. I Adams
                 Comm^r Sc.

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1887

Petition of William
Dooling and Charlotte
Dooling for Letters of
Administration to the
Estate of the late
James Best

Filed June 28/87

     Fiat
       ??? Carty
            C J

Carter & Carter
      Proctors

Supreme Court of Newfoundland.
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Be it Remembered, That on this    Twenty ninth        day of June
                              in the Forty     51^st   Year of the Reign of our Sovereign
          LADY VICTORIA, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, &c., and in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Eighty-seven  personally appeared William Dooling of S^t.John's in the Central District Mariner Charlotte Dooling of same place married woman John Howlett of same place Draper and Patrick    Leary of same place Coachman----------
and did acknowledge themselves to be held and firmly bound to our said Lady the Queen, ­­Her Heirs and Successors, in the penal Sum of
  Four hundred----------------------------------------
Dollars, to be had, made and levied on their Goods, Chattels and Effects, jointly and severally, if Default is made in any of the conditions following :-

NOW THE CONDITION OF THE OBLIGATION IS SUCH, that if the above bounden William Dooling + Charlotte Dooling as Administrators       of the Estate and Effects of
                                     as Administratrix        of the Estate and Effects of             James   Best      ________            late of Greenspond Fisherman
deceased, do make, or cause to be made, a just, true, and perfect inventory of all and singular the Goods, Credits and Effects of the said deceased, which have or shall come to the hands, possession, or knowledge of   them     the said William Dooling + Charlotte Dooling
as such Administrators        or to the hands or possession of any other person, or persons, for  them     and the same so made do exhibit, or cause to be exhibited, in the Supreme Court of Newfoundland, at or before the      29^th         day of December    next ensuing the date hereof ; and the said Goods, Chattels, Credits and Effects, and all other the Goods, Chattels, Credits and Effects of the said deceased, at the time of his death, or which at any time afterwards shall come into the hands or possession of them the said W^m and Charlotte Dooling or to the hands or possession of any other person or persons for them shall well and truly administer according to Law, and further shall make, or cause to be made, a just and true account of  their   said Administration, on or before the     29  ^th         day of     June             which will be in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Eighty- Eight    and afterwards from time to time as they shall be lawfully required.  And all the rest, residue, and remainder of the said Goods, Chattels, Credits and Effects, which shall be found remaining upon the said Administration Account, the same being examined and allowed by the said Supreme Court of Newfoundlandland, shall and do pay and dispose of in due course of Administration, or in such a mannner as the said Court shall direct ; then this obligation to be void and of no effect, or else to be and remain in full force and virtue.

Signed and Sealed           }             John M  Wilcox
          in the presence of  }             Charlotte her X mark Dooling
(having been first read
over and explained)                        John Howlett
    Geo. I. Adams                                  Patrick his X mark Leary
             Comm^r.S.c.
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